Oops! Caught In Another Big Lie

Some of us remember John Kerry from 33 years ago. It was back then that he made himself famous by throwing the medals he had won in Vietnam over the White House wall. It was there rather surprising to learn that the medals he supposedly threw over the wall were on display in his Senate office.

We've since learned that those were somebody else's medals he threw back. And, he recently argued that he had never claimed that they were his own medal in the first place.

"I never ever implied that I did it, " Kerry told the [Los Angeles Times], responding to the question of whether he threw away his medals in protest.

"I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them," he told Jennings in December, adding that he had only thrown away his "ribbons" and the medals of two other veterans who could not attend the protest.


But ABC News has acquired footage showing a young John Kerry making precisely that claim.

"I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals," Kerry said in an interview on a Washington, D.C., news program on WRC-TV called Viewpoints on Nov. 6, 1971, according to a tape obtained by ABCNEWS.




Once a plastic banana, always a plastic banana.

Update

Kerry's response on ABC was as lame as it gets. Depending upon which was most expedient at the moment, either the ribbons he threw away were the equivalent of medals, so he didn't lie when he said that he threw his medals away. Or, when that conflicted with this claim that he never implied that he threw his own medals away, then they were just ribbons, not medals after all.

The whole thing is a creation of a vast right wing conspiracy of course - which includes ABC News and John Kerry himself I suppose.